Meaning not yet researched.
Benita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #445 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #445 in 1961; #8,953 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Benita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,953 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #445.
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Benita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #445 in 1961 · most girls in one year: 480 (1961).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Benita, making it the 8,953rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,325 places from #11,278 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 8 girls named Benita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #445, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 480. For comparison, it was #5,866 in 2015 and #606 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Benita in 133 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 13,669 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 3,720 babies named Benita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US girls were named Benita; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Benetta, Benedetta and Benedicta are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latvian, Polish and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Benetta (438), Benedetta (421), Benedicta (116), Bennita (43), Beneta (36), Bineta (30), Binita (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Benita in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,953 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,278 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,306 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,620 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,986 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,047 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,207 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,253 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,882 | — | — |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,062 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,866 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,723 | — | — |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,711 | — | — |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,734 | — | — |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,827 | — | — |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,262 | — | — |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,134 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,120 | — | — |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,557 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,398 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,781 | — | — |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,934 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,396 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,034 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,420 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,928 | — | — |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,166 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,653 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1992 | 77 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1989 | 84 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 1988 | 60 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,382 | — | — |
| 1984 | 89 | #1,351 | — | — |
| 1983 | 98 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1982 | 126 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1980 | 126 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1979 | 138 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1978 | 136 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1977 | 158 | #898 | — | — |
| 1976 | 136 | #939 | — | — |
| 1975 | 161 | #833 | — | — |
| 1974 | 156 | #842 | — | — |
| 1973 | 172 | #778 | — | — |
| 1972 | 209 | #695 | — | — |
| 1971 | 219 | #695 | — | — |
| 1970 | 286 | #606 | — | — |
| 1969 | 278 | #594 | — | — |
| 1968 | 278 | #575 | — | — |
| 1967 | 302 | #542 | — | — |
| 1966 | 311 | #535 | — | — |
| 1965 | 377 | #487 | — | — |
| 1964 | 371 | #510 | — | — |
| 1963 | 399 | #487 | — | — |
| 1962 | 449 | #454 | — | — |
| 1961 | 480 | #445 | — | — |
| 1960 | 475 | #447 | — | — |
| 1959 | 394 | #489 | — | — |
| 1958 | 345 | #522 | — | — |
| 1957 | 317 | #538 | — | — |
| 1956 | 283 | #557 | — | — |
| 1955 | 315 | #521 | — | — |
| 1954 | 297 | #517 | — | — |
| 1953 | 250 | #552 | — | — |
| 1952 | 243 | #552 | — | — |
| 1951 | 255 | #518 | — | — |
| 1950 | 190 | #606 | — | — |
| 1949 | 184 | #607 | — | — |
| 1948 | 163 | #652 | — | — |
| 1947 | 127 | #764 | — | — |
| 1946 | 122 | #733 | — | — |
| 1945 | 88 | #804 | — | — |
| 1944 | 86 | #821 | — | — |
| 1943 | 88 | #830 | — | — |
| 1942 | 84 | #832 | — | — |
| 1941 | 96 | #719 | — | — |
| 1940 | 79 | #797 | — | — |
| 1939 | 98 | #688 | — | — |
| 1938 | 92 | #713 | — | — |
| 1937 | 112 | #640 | — | — |
| 1936 | 134 | #564 | — | — |
| 1935 | 124 | #578 | — | — |
| 1934 | 123 | #587 | — | — |
| 1933 | 132 | #553 | — | — |
| 1932 | 79 | #760 | — | — |
| 1931 | 97 | #678 | — | — |
| 1930 | 78 | #801 | — | — |
| 1929 | 88 | #747 | — | — |
| 1928 | 71 | #864 | — | — |
| 1927 | 68 | #904 | — | — |
| 1926 | 82 | #801 | — | — |
| 1925 | 56 | #996 | — | — |
| 1924 | 81 | #829 | — | — |
| 1923 | 64 | #913 | — | — |
| 1922 | 51 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1921 | 50 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1920 | 57 | #969 | — | — |
| 1919 | 64 | #876 | — | — |
| 1918 | 69 | #863 | — | — |
| 1917 | 50 | #986 | — | — |
| 1916 | 45 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1915 | 49 | #946 | — | — |
| 1914 | 40 | #933 | — | — |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1912 | 30 | #921 | — | — |
| 1911 | 30 | #790 | — | — |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,655 | — | — |
| 1906 | 12 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1905 | 14 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,225 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,305 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).